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The best method is to use the lower bound of a statistical confidence interval. I won't go into detail about how to do this, as Evan Miller has a great post on How NOT to sort by average rating for a Bernoulli distribution - which is what you have. The main reason that you would use this method is to find a balance between the average vote and the number ...

JohnGB's answer works well at the top of a ratings list, but it causes problems further down the list. For an example, using 95% confidence intervals: A has 100 upvotes, 3 downvote (97%). Confidence Interval: (0.917, 0.990) B has 10 upvotes, 0 downvotes (100%). Confidence Interval: (0.722, 1) C has 180 upvotes, 100 downvotes (67%). Confidence Interval: ...

As the other answers generally agree, what you basically want to do is, in effect, to bias the rankings for items with low vote counts towards some "default" rank — which might be the mean rank, if you want an unbiased estimate, or a very low rank if you subscribe to the idea that an item should be ranked low until it's proven to deserve a higher rank. ...

First stop and consider why people need to flag as inappropriate; if content isn't allowed on your site, why is it allowed to be there for two weeks? If you allow content for two weeks, your site could suddenly become a porn site and without a flagging option your users have no way to share this information. Or, if you are a porn site, your site could ...

Provide a rich text editor toolbar like what you see here, and make a combobox-like selection of available placeholders. The more interesting part comes on the rendering of the edited text, as the placeholder is expected to be an atomic token, therefore two behaviours are wouldbe expected in my opinion: highlighted handling: usually, a "capsule", with ...

'Flag as inappropriate' for a public site can be very useful for the reason you outlined - prompt removal of inappropriate content. Whether you NEED that there for legal reasons or not I cannot say, however to avoid misuse of the feature have you considered asking for a minimal amount of user specific information to process the flag? Maybe Name, Email and a ...

Yes, users waste time to post exist information. Question and answer boards were designed to contain knowledge to be reused, so it is not make sense that askers do not learn from exist information, and ask questions which are similar to answered questions. Duplicate questions waste time of users who answer questions. Users should create new knowledge ...

The best way in my experience is to do at least the following: The text should be high contrast, for example black on white (preferred) or white on black depending on your design. The text should be visually distinct from labels and other non-editable fields in your application. If your application uses a mouse, ensure that the cursor changes to the I-beam ...

I was wondering if using something similar to soundclouds timeline based commenting system but for copy based posts is a sensible idea. I think the point of having those in soundcloud is justified by the idea that it is really hard to refer to a certain point of time in the track just by the time in seconds. The system visualizes the comments' context. ...